You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.